LONDON (Reuters) – English Premier League football clubs should be able to pay their players as much as they like, Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese said on Friday, attacking new cost control measures.

Top flight English clubs last month approved the introduction of limits on losses and curbs on increases in player wages to try to ensure that the latest television cash windfall leads to greater financial stability.

LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) – English Premier League soccer clubs should be able to pay their players as much as they like, Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese said on Friday, attacking new cost control measures.

Top flight English clubs last month approved the introduction of limits on losses and curbs on increases in player wages to try to ensure that the latest television cash windfall leads to greater financial stability.

LONDON (Reuters) – Former Scottish champions Rangers should be integrated into English club football in the next few years alongside perennial Glasgow rivals Celtic, Rangers chief executive Charles Green said on Monday.

Green said Wales were likely to have two clubs in the English Premier League next season if Cardiff City were promoted to join Swansea City.

LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) – Former Scottish champions Rangers should be integrated into English club soccer in the next few years alongside perennial Glasgow rivals Celtic, Rangers chief executive Charles Green said on Monday.

Green said Wales were likely to have two clubs in the English Premier League next season if Cardiff City were promoted to join Swansea City.

LONDON (Reuters) – Stan Kroenke has no plans to sell his majority stake in Arsenal, a spokesman for the Premier League soccer club said on Sunday, responding to a report that a Middle East consortium planned a 1.5-billion-pound ($2.25-billion) bid.

The Sunday Telegraph said the consortium, backed by funds from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, had already requested a meeting with the American billionaire Kroenke, who owns a two-thirds stake in the famous north London club ahead of what would be a record takeover bid for a soccer club.

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) – Stan Kroenke has no plans to sell his majority stake in Arsenal, a spokesman for the Premier League soccer club said on Sunday, responding to a report that a Middle East consortium planned a 1.5-billion-pound ($2.25-billion) bid.

The Sunday Telegraph said the consortium, backed by funds from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, had already requested a meeting with the American billionaire Kroenke, who owns a two-thirds stake in the famous north London club ahead of what would be a record takeover bid for a soccer club.